"There is another way of putting this. But I forgot it." - Pier Giorgio DiCicco

Thursday, December 09, 2010

2010, in the words of the proprietor.

With a tip of the chapeau to Cath over at VWXYnot, from whom I've borrowed the idea, here's a quick recap of the Ricardiblog for 2010. The first sentence of the first post from each month.

It's a pretty miserable collection, truth be told, with three months missing entirely (although, in a strangely recursive way, we could put "With a tip of the chapeau to Cath over at VWXYnot..." in as the first one for December, I suppose). A New Year's resolution for 2010 suggests itself - try to be a bit more consistent with posting. Although I did fire off half a dozen at Life Science Tools of the Trade, and I will soon be posting sporadically at another, as yet undisclosed, location. Stay tuned.

February: "Just a quick guerilla post to point anyone who might be reading at a worthy initiative - the Scientia Pro Publica blog carnival, which as I understand it is a regular initiative to bring interesting science to the attention of the general public."

June: "The recent G20 summit in Toronto, truth be told, was only a minor inconvenience to me."

July: "I'm excited." [Ok, this is the first sentence of July - the first post per se consisted only of a photograph.]

August: "Saturday." [Hm. That's not really a sentence is it? The next one is the much more long-winded "A much earlier mandatory photography meeting than the previous day, and a quick brief for today's assignment - shots in the paddocks, the areas where the race cars live and are worked on, when they're not on-track."]

September: Argh, didn't post anything in this month either.

October: "There is a protest brewing, if I can mix metaphors so early in this post."

November: "One by one they left behind the bright fields of innocence and stepped into the darkness of experience." [I didn't write this, but it's a sentence. And there were no other posts in November to draw from.]

I like it. Same first post as me, and end on the same note - then I can't have been that bad either :)

As for the blogging, I noticed when I went through it that it's been blotchy this year. I think I'm in between "venting without thinking too much" and "not doing the real proper blog posts about science" and then I got stuck there. I was trying to move away from venting.... but maybe that is what I was?! ^^

My blog this year has been limited to three - shame on me. The first was about dancing when in school, and a rant about snow. I mentioned the passing of Robert B Parker, and then the Cup Final. All sad occasions really.... Talking of snow, our erstwhile weather forecasters here in Florida are predicting yet another cold spell being pushed down from Canada next week. It's about 20 degrees below normal here! (That's about 11 degrees in Centipedes for our Canadian friends). There was frost on the ground yesterday! Climate change no doubt... Back to the plot, I have a new T-Shirt, it reads 'We need more Ricardipus Blogs'.